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John Piper Quotes - Page 17

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Intensity is all that matters in painting.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

Matter, Painting, Intensity

We are far too easily pleased.

John Piper (1979). “'Love Your Enemies': Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and in the Early Christian Paraenesis”, p.166, CUP Archive

The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

Law, Creative

Foreword by John Piper to Enid Verity's book "Colour", 1967.

Adoption is the visible Gospel.

Adoption, Visible

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

Christian, Christian Inspirational, Missionary

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

Men, Worship, Missions

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.35, Baker Academic

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Christmas, Meaningful, Needs

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

Reality, Want, Morality

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

Christian, People, Threatening

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Hypocrite, Names, Trying

John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.23, Multnomah

Mission exists because worship doesn't.

Worship, Missions

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.35, Baker Academic

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

Joy, Supremacy, Ends

My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all. You were made for God. Don’t waste it.

Jesus, Remember You, Remembers You

Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

Life Is, Christ, Crosses

According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!

Self Esteem, Men, Evil

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

Jesus, Doe, Spirit

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

Doe, Christ, Glory

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

Children, Reality, People

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

Fire, Failing, Wave

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

Abortion, Humanity, Doe

In Colossians 2:12 and 1 Peter 3:21 baptism is an expression of the faith of the person being baptized. I [do] not see how an infant could properly receive this ordinance as an expression of his or her faith.

Expression, Baptism, Peter

John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.158, B&H Publishing Group

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

Heart, Giving, Soul

If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

Heart, Men, Light

John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.36, Baker Academic

The murders of Newtown are a warning to me - and you. Not a warning to see our schools as defenseless, but to see our souls as depraved. To see our need for a Savior. To humble ourselves in repentance for the God-diminishing bitterness of our hearts. To turn to Christ in desperate need, and to treasure his forgiveness, his transforming, and his friendship.

Heart, Humble, School

It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

Sex, Children, Abortion

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